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Peachburg, Alabama

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Union Springs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36089. The Survey maps it on the Roba quadrangle.

Peachburg within Bullock County

On record in Peachburg

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

Surveyed buildings and structures 2 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Photographs

4 photographs,

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Colonel Luther Walker House, County Road 40, Peachburg, Bullock County, AL
Colonel Luther Walker House, County Road 40, Peachburg, Bullock County, AL
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Seale-Mosley House, County Road 40 (moved from original location), Peachburg, Bullock County, AL
Seale-Mosley House, County Road 40 (moved from original location), Peachburg, Bullock County, AL
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Senator Thomas Sidney Frazier House, County Road 40, Peachburg, Bullock County, AL
Senator Thomas Sidney Frazier House, County Road 40, Peachburg, Bullock County, AL
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Octavia Adkinson House, Wilson Road, Peachburg, Bullock County, AL
Octavia Adkinson House, Wilson Road, Peachburg, Bullock County, AL
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

106 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 106 fires within 5 miles of Peachburg between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,546 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 23 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning41
Arson/incendiarism23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Recreation and ceremony9
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural3
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
16 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined23 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1999Arson/incendiarism80 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 2019Debris and open burning148 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190914-16
5 August 1998Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
26 August 2000Debris and open burning3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
25 August 2007Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
19 August 1996Recreation and ceremony3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
12 August 2000Natural20 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bullock County

Storms near this place

1 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Peachburg in 1 storm report in 2015: 1 tornado. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2015Tornado (EF1)Peachburg-The tornado touched down in a pecan grove on Peachburg Road uprooting a mature healthy pecan tree. It traveled northeast paralleling Peachburg Road, snapping and uprooting numerous pines and hardwoods. It continued along a utility right of way and partially wooded land before crossing Peachburg Road again, and lifted just after crossing the road. No structures were affected by this tornado. Estimated peak wind was 95 mph.

Every storm recorded in Bullock County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Chunnenuggee1.1 miles8
Suspension3.0 miles9
Sedgefield4.5 miles8
Three Notch4.6 miles8
Union Springs5.0 miles8
Stavo6.7 miles8
Enon6.8 miles8
Aberfoil7.2 miles8

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q122550283The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 156862. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.